“Love is what’s left when you let go of absolutely everything you don’t need.” Erich Shiffman “I can’t let go of everything. What will I be? I don’t want to be a non entity.” I completely get it. What would it look like if I were to let go of everything? Would I become nothing? […]
Category: Compassion
Self love
I was lying in savasana and my throat was all tight, tears were threatening to come pouring out of my closed eyes the thought came, “I did this to me. What is wrong with me that I would eat myself into 20 lbs? Don’t I care about myself at all?” After class I broke down […]
Harmony
“I’d like to teach the world to sing/ in perfect harmony.” I was in yoga class the other day and the teacher played a track of music and asked us to chant with it. The whole class was chanting in unison, matching the same pitch as the leader, but her pitch was higher than my […]
Loving Kindness
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” Max Ehrmann There’s a great deal of vulnerability that comes with loving kindness. Being kind to others requires that we practice a general empathy and compassion […]
Compassion
If you want to others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama “Maybe you should try practicing some compassion,” I said to my friend. “I do! I try to think of what I did to trigger his actions. What can I say that will make him […]
Heather Dellapi 